Conference Documentation: Energy Risk Management (2010)
SMI Publishing, Ltd
June 21, 2010 SKU: SMI2771823
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The energy industry is undergoing some active transformations in the current marketplace. You as decision makers need to fully understand the opportunities & complexities arising out of these changes and protect yourself against any commercial, legal or operational risks.
SMi’s 5th annual Energy Risk Management conference will bring together renowned experts to debate on most prominent issues in the industry. The event will provide you the unique opportunity to address concerns and find solutions needed to succeed in these turbulent times.
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- DAY 1
- 8.30 Registration & Coffee
- 9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
- Mike Davis, Director, ICE Futures Europe.
- 9.10 EXPLORING HEDGING STRATEGIES FOR A VOLATILE WHOLESALE ENERGY MARKET
- Generators
- Industrial and commercial customers
- Key challenges faced by the suppliers
- George Axiotis, Head of Structuring and Modelling, RWE NPower.
- 9.50 MANAGING RISKS ARISING OUT OF GLOBAL REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS
- Effects of regulatory developments on global derivates trading
- Role of CFTC in the US
- Analysing similar challenges for other countries
- James Allison, Regional Risk Manager, Natural Gas and Power, North America, ConocoPhillips.
- 10.30 Morning Coffee
- 11.00 DECARBONISING POWER: RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES
- The challenge
- Issues and barriers
- What it will mean for the market?
- Chris Hall, Consultant, EDF Energy.
- 11.40 REVIEW OF GLOBAL OIL BENCHMARKS AND PRICING
- Benchmark basics: What makes a price benchmark, and who needs them?
- Status of current benchmarks
- Ongoing price trends and correlations
- Forward scenarios, new benchmark candidates
- Mike Davis, Director, ICE Futures Europe.
- 12.20 Networking Lunch
- 1.50 COMMODITY RISKS IN OIL AND GAS
- Commodity risk challenges in the oil and gas industry
- Role of trading and hedging
- Tax and valuation issues
- Kim Kragelund, Director of Finance, Head of Business Planning, Dong E & P.
- 2.30 CREDIT RISK IN ENERGY TRADING: A PRACTICAL APPROACH
- Counterparty Analysis and Limit setting
- Exposure measurement and monitoring
- Risk Mitigation Instruments and Documentation
- Credit Pricing
- Diana Higgins, Credit and Procurement Risk Reporting Manager, Centrica Energy.
- 3.10 OPTIONS AND THEIR USAGE
- How are options used by utilities to value and hedge risks
- Real options
- Valuing the flexibility of physical assets
- Lionel Greene, Head of Options Trading, EDFT/CA-CIB.
- 3.50 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
- Mike Davis, Director, ICE Futures Europe.
- DAY 2
- 8.30 Registration & Coffee
- 9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
- Robert Manicke, Corporate Director of Quantitative Analyses, Statoil.
- 9.10 EFFECTS OF THE RECENT PROLIFERATION AND STRONG GROWTH OF EXCHANGES IN ENERGY TRADING
- Why is energy trading on exchanges expanding?
- How do exchanges manage risk?
- What are the implications for energy risk management professionals?
- David Flanagan, Energy Market Analyst, NewsBase.
- 9.50 THE IMPORTANCE OF RISK MANAGEMENT FOR MAJOR PROJECTS (S) & PORTFOLIOS
- The importance of Project Delivery
- What are the major risks in Project Delivery
- How are companies managing these risks?
- The changing role of the Finance Professional
- Hans Van Nues, Former VP Finance, Projects Shell.
- 10.30 Morning Coffee
- 11.00 INSURANCE AS A RISK MANAGEMENT TOOL
- Using insurance as a risk mitigation tool
- Risk capital
- Best practices
- Robert Manicke, Corporate Director of Quantitative Analyses, Statoil.
- 11.40 MODELLING THE SPIKES IN ENERGY PRICES
- Alternative models for spikes in power prices
- The forecastability of price spikes
- Pricing the risk of spikes
- Derek Bunn, Professor, London Business School.
- 12.20 Networking Lunch
- 1.50 EU ENERGY SECURITY: GAS TRANSIT RISKS
- EU gas security: growing importance of transit dimension
- Why do gas transit disputes take place? Transit tariffs and off-take prices as major contentious issues
- Ukraine transit risks
- Belarus transit risks
- Moldova transit risks
- Transit dispute prevention/resolution mechanisms: bilateral (contractual) and multilateral (ECT)
- Katja Yafimava, Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.
- 2.30 UNDERSTANDING CREDIT RISK FOR TRADING COUNTERPARTIES
- The role of credit risk in a trading environment
- Valuation of credit risk
- Relation between credit, liquidity and market risk
- Credit risk mitigation measures and relocation of risk
- Lara Beraha-Levy, Head of Risk Management, ATEL Trading.
- 3.10 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two
- Robert Manicke, Corporate Director of Quantitative Analyses, Statoil.
- 3.15 Afternoon Tea
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